The time for change has come. The new GWW Warsaw office is now open As of Monday, you can find us in a brand new location – in the very centre of Warsaw, in the headquarters building of the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Książęca Street. This is a change to the company’s headquarters, as well as to the place where our Warsaw specialists work.
Our new location in Warsaw 👇
GWW Legal & Tax
00-498 Warsaw
GWW’s public procurement expert, attorney-at-law Marta Lipinska, has become a member of the Public Procurement Law Association.
The Association was established in 2017 by a group of specialists in the field of public procurement, public-private partnerships and construction works. It is intended as a space for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the field of public procurement law in its broadest sense, including drawing on the best international models and promoting professional ethics among those working in this area of law.
Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska and the Private Client team have once again topped the Chambers and Partner ranking in the Private Wealth Law category.
1st place – Band 1 for the head of the team, Aldona Leszczyńska-Mikulska
Clients asked by Chambers about Aldona: ‘I consider Aldona one of the leading lawyers on the market. She has perfect interpersonal skills to handle difficult situations.’ ‘Aldona is best-in-class.’
1st place – Band 1 for the entire GWW Private Client team
Clients asked by Chambers about the team: ‘GWW is a well-known player in the private client and wealth law field.’ ‘The people I’ve worked with at GWW are extremely collegial and professional.’
We are proud of our team Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska, Tomasz Piejak, Krzysztof Gajdziński, Franciszek Dewille, Natalia Uchmanowicz, Michał Zieliński, Jakub Dziadur, Weronika Długokęcka, Kacper Skałkowski
The Public Procurement Court on 19 April 2024, dismissed the complaint of our client GWW’s opponent, whom we had represented before the NAC and the Court.
The case concerned allegations relating to the fulfilment of the conditions for participation in the proceedings, exclusion on the grounds of gross negligence and the signing of a reference using a facsimile.
The contracting authority, upon our recommendation, verified the scope of work at the investor of the reference investment, which led to the appeal being upheld. The appellant referred to the experience gained as a result of the merger with another company that was a subcontractor on the reference task.
The court indicated in its oral reasons that:
The Appellant is required to rebut the pleas put forward in the appeal. The Tribunal disagreed with its position that the Chamber had shifted the burden of proof to it.
It could not agree with the Appellant that it could rely on the evidence of the statement of the general contractor’s president, whereas the Employer had submitted a letter from the investor indicating the scopes of work of the subcontractors.
The Appellant could not claim that it did not know what scope of work the subcontractor had carried out, since it had become the legal successor of that entity and used its experience as its own.
The Applicant misled the Contracting Authority by showing gross negligence in accordance with Article 109(1)(8) of the PPL Act.
On the issue of the facsimile signature of the reference, the Chamber and the Court held that the document could not be considered as sufficient evidence without a second statement from the CEO of the general contractor signed with a qualified signature.
The case was led by Marta Lipińska, a attorney-at-law specialising in public procurement.
On 18 June 2024, a GWW webinar was held on the system for monitoring the carriage of goods in SENT (i.e. the System for Electronic Surveillance of Transport) and discussing the proposed changes to the regulations introducing the obligation to report carriage to the SENT register by foreign hauliers performing international road freight transport nt Poland.
During the webinar, participants were familiarised with
– issues related to the SENT register and the principles of its operation (e.g. basic registration obligations, ways of sending carriage declarations to the SENT register);
– goods covered by the SENT system, as well as those excluded from carriage monitoring;
– types/schemes of carriage covered by monitoring in the SENT system, as well as the roles of participants in these carriages and the basic obligations incumbent on them in relation to mandatory monitoring;
– Penalties for violations of obligations under the Act on the monitoring system for road and rail transport of goods and trade in heating fuels;
– rules for dealing with the unavailability of the SENT register (emergency procedure).
In addition, the proposed changes, which will come into force on 1 July 2024 and will concern foreign hauliers performing international road transport of goods nt Poland, were discussed, in particular those concerning the introduction of an obligation to notify carriage to the SENT register before its commencement nt Poland. The scope of data that will be subject to notification and penalties provided for in the Road Transport Act related to the breach of carriage monitoring obligations in SENT were also presented.
Agnieszka Zawiślańska, legal adviser at GWW’s Wrocław branch, has been promoted to senior associate!
Agnieszka’s day-to-day work includes advising on corporate law, capital markets, real estate transactions, the investment process, as well as conducting litigation. She is also the supervisor of the Life Science specialisation at GWW.
Congratulations on your promotion and we wish you continued success!
We are happy to announce the successful results of our lawyers’ professional examinations!
Many congratulations.
We wish you every success in your future careers!
The centrepiece of the Tax Advisor Day celebrations on 16 May was the conference ‘Taxpayer rights – in search of effective protection tools’. The conference was attended on the part of GWW by, among others, Andrzej Ladzinski, tax adviser, managing partner of GWW Tax and Chairman of the NCRDP, and Małgorzata Militz, tax adviser and partner of GWW Tax.
During his speech, Andrzej Ladziński expressed his opinion on the introduction of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and pointed to 5 key issues which, in his opinion, should be included therein.
You can read about the details of the event and the conclusions drawn from the expert debate here https://kidp.pl/prawa-podatnika-w-poszukiwaniu…
The Tax Advisor Day was organised by the Mazovia Branch of KIDP and the National Council of Tax Advisors.
The new GWW Rzeszów office is now open.
With the beginning of May, the address of the Rzeszów branch of GWW changed. Now our team supports you from our office at 44 Piłsudskiego Avenue – in the new part of Galeria Rzeszów on the side of the Local Train Station.
The address has changed, but the way we operate remains the same – focused on comprehensive support and the satisfaction of our clients.
On 18 – 19 April, the EuroPOWER & OZE POWER Conference took place in Warsaw. It was an excellent opportunity to hear from experts in the country’s energy industry.
The event covered topics such as:
energy transition and economic development in Poland: challenges and prospects;
sustainable development and renewable energy sources in Poland: strategies and innovations;
distribution networks in Poland: infrastructure development in the new energy era;
the steps we are taking to ensure a safe and sustainable future for nuclear energy;
the energy sector through the prism of the young generation.
The conference was attended by Łukasz Doniec, GWW legal counsel.
Read more about the conference at: https://konferencjaeuropower.pl/
